“The desire for peace is universal.”

I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

Acting essentially requires feeling.

My happiest days are those in which I do good work.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Let us try to understand each other’s problems, for in modern warfare there is no victory.

We think too much and feel too little.

People’s affection hurts me but it’s a beautiful pain.

One cannot do humour without a great sympathy for one’s fellow man.

What a sad business, being funny.

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

Let’s call them years of a friendly misalliance.

The world cannot be wrong if in this world there’s you.

My costume helps me to express my conception of the average man, of almost any man, of myself.

Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life.

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.

From the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of circles will be nine.

On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.

He calms my chaos and I fuel his fire. We are a match made between heaven and hell.

I think it’s a feeling like I’ve got it all figured out. There’s nothing that can shock me anymore. There’s nothing I haven’t anticipated; so at that point, there is a calmness.